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It won't be the death chamber,
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and it might not even be prison.
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Robert Durst could
soon be back on the street.
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- I think it's horrible.
- I, I can't believe he got off.
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My take, this is scary,
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that this guy is
going to be free,
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just based on what he did with the body,
et cetera.
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And he's a possible suspect
in two other murders?
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It was utter disbelief.
I mean, utter disbelief.
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The New York Times,
generally not known for their
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ironic humorous take on things,
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"New York City Real Estate Heir
Is Acquitted of Murder in Texas.
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Durst, Who Cut Up a Body..."
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Ha ha ha!
"Argued Self-Defense."
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That's as close as
The New York Times will ever come
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to literally just making
a joke on the front page.
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That's like The New York Times
just going,
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"Can you believe this?"
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Nothing happens the way
it's supposed to happen
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when it comes to Bobby Durst,
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and I've become accustomed to
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expecting things
not to make sense.
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You chopped up your neighbor.
Tell us about that.
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Well, he raged at me and,
as I was defending myself,
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I fell, and accidentally,
uh, chopped him up.
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And of course, The New York Post
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strikes a more cautionary pose.
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"Run For Your Lives."
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Murder 1, you know,
we're gonna go,
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"Murder 1,
this is a slam dunk."
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That's the phrase that was used
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by the Galveston Police
to me in person.
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"Slam dunk, Jim."
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There are some people that,
no matter how much
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money they threw at the case,
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were convicted
and shouldn't have been.
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And there are people that
escape responsibility
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because they're able to mount
a really effective defense.
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Do I think it's unfair?
Yeah, I do think it's unfair.
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But, we are in
a capitalistic system,
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and the people that make the
money can drive the Cadillacs,
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and people that don't
make as much money
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have to get...
Buy a used car.
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Did you have anything
to do with Susan Berman's death?
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Did you murder your wife?
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Whether it's the LAPD
bringing him to trial,
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whether it's Westchester County
District Attorney's Office
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bringing him to trial,
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whether it's the FBI
bringing him to trial,
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whether it's the security guard
at Disney World
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bringing him to trial,
I really don't care.
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I hope they get a conviction.
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I hope if they,
if whoever prosecutes him,
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I hope they get a conviction.
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Because I really believe
our society is much safer
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with him behind bars
without him roaming around.
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There
are times when I'm in a situation
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where I,
I will have people staring at me.
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I can tell they're
talking about me.
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And they're telling somebody else that,
you know, I'm me.
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There's a lot of
people out there
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who think I killed my wife,
that I killed Susan Berman,
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that I intentionally murdered
Morris Black.
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"And it's quite possible that
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he's killed a whole slew
of other people."
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That is what I would
think if I was
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as familiar with the media
as I am about me.
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Hello.
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Oh, Nicky!
How are you?
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Can I have a name for the drink?
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Bob.
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And you got a tall Americano,
right?
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- Yes, we do.
- And what do we owe you?
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$5.44.
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Thank you.
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The whole Bob Durst headline
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had absolutely no affect on
the Durst Organization's ability
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to work and thrive in New York.
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Douglas Durst is the chairman of
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the Durst Organization,
one of the most powerful companies
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in Manhattan real estate
for almost a century.
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This past summer,
the Port Authority
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awarded the Durst Organization
the right to take over leasing,
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management,
and operation of the Freedom Tower.
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Bob's case,
it's like something that's over there
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and totally separate from
the Durst Organization,
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because there's a whole
generation of people that don't,
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have never had contact with,
with Bob.
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Bob was more, like,
on the periphery from my memory.
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He was, you know,
like my mom's older brother.
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Except for those first few
months in early '82,
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when my aunt was missing
and it was in the papers.
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And I guess it was
on TV or whatever.
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Um, it was just
not talked about at all.
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And, you know,
I was 11 when that happened.
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Later on in my twenties it was like,
"Oh, and by the way,
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"your uncle, Robert Durst,
might have
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something to do with
her disappearance."
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So that's like, "OK."
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I mean, I, I don't know how one
is supposed to react to that.
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I feel the way I reacted to,
which made sense at the time,
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was, you know,
my parents were like,
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"Look,
there's nothing we can do,
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and we just don't talk about it,
whatever."
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And I don't blame them for doing
that or not doing anything.
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But I'm not happy about the fact
that it's 30 years later,
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and there's a Berlin Wall
of silence.
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Unfortunately,
there is no haven from
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what's going on with my brother,
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as it's in the papers
quite frequently.
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But it's not something
that we discuss,
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and not something that we have
any involvement in.
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I knew as soon as the
verdict came down in Galveston
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that I couldn't get the closure
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that I wanted for
Kathleen's family.
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That then put it back
on the front burner
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in terms of, "OK, guys.
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"Let's regroup,
find out what we've got.
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"Find out if we can
get anything else,
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and where we go from here."
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We really wanted to try to
figure out if there was anyone
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from in the family who'd
break and give us something.
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One of the things that always
bothered me about the case,
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I mean, here is Seymour Durst,
one of the 5 most powerful
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real estate people in the city,
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and his daughter-in-law
goes missing.
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And there's not one hint of it
in the police files,
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that this is a big,
gigantic case.
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There's no interviews with
anybody from Bob's family
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in the original case folder,
which is kind of strange.
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You know,
if Seymour Durst is worth
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a couple hundred million dollars,
you want to find out
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what he thinks about his
daughter-in-law missing.
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Was your dad engaged in any way
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when Kathie disappeared?
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Did he do anything?
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Oh, he, he, um,
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really,
really wanted to leave it to me.
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Do you think that,
that Seymour ever thought
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that you might have
had something to do
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with her disappearance?
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I haven't the faintest idea.
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I highly, highly,
highly doubt it,
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but Seymour's thoughts
were inscrutable.
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10, 11 weeks after the case began,
I received a call.
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And a male voice on the other end,
"Hi, Mike."
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And I said, "Who's this?"
"This is Nick."
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And I said, "Nick who?"
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And he says, "Nick Scoppetta."
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"Bob Durst, you know,
really appreciates
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"the work that you're doing
and is very satisfied.
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"But, you know,
Bob is a very busy guy,
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"and that I would appreciate
that all,
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all other communication going
forward you do through me."
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And that's the classic
lawyering up.
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Now, if you've got, you know,
nothing to hide,
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and you've dropped your
wife off at the train station,
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why would you go out and hire
a criminal defense attorney?
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Nick Scoppetta was your lawyer
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to defend you from the
potential of accusations.
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He was my lawyer, but he was
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supposed to find Kathie Durst.
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I mean,
if he could find Kathie Durst,
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there'd be no accusations.
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Was he supposed to find Kathie?
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Yes.
It was the whole intent of it.
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Do you think that Nick did work
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to try to find Kathie?
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Yes!
He brought in a private investigator
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who used to be a cop in,
or used to be
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a big cop in that precinct.
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What was the name?
Ed Wright.
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Hello.
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I'm looking for Edward Wright, that
was a private detective back in the 1980s.
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No, I was chief investigator of
New York State Organized Crime Task Force,
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'82 to '94.
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Something tells me you're my man.
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I think you might have done
some private work for Nick Scoppetta?
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Yeah.
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Nick Scoppetta was an assistant DA.
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He had gone out into private practice,
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and, lo and behold, when Kathie disappeared
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and her family members
were pointing fingers,
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Robert's father who was,
you know, a millionaire many times over,
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contacted him to represent Robert.
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So, Nick contacted me to do
some work, and that's what I did.
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Ed Wright was able to get
lots of stuff from the police.
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He knew the police.
The police liked him.
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He was able to get information
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that was theoretically
unavailable.
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Who thought what?
Who said what?
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Well, I was wondering if we
could talk about it a little bit.
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I mean, you were there back then
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and you had access to Bob
at a time that was critical.
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Yeah, but, at the time, I was working for
Nick Scoppetta, who was representing him.
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So, anything that he had
indicated to me during my interview,
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you know, it's privileged,
same as whatever he said to Scoppetta.
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It's titled "Discrepancies
in the Recollection
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of Various Principals."
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It's Ed Wright's view of
where there are inconsistencies
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in his own client's accounting of what,
what went on
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the night his wife disappeared.
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- Good evening.
- She talked on the telephone
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with her husband,
then she vanished.
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And no one has seen
Kathleen Durst since.
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This particular report
indicates how Bob Durst
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had changed his story
to his own investigator
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about where he called Kathie
on the night of January 31.
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In the first
interview with Wright,
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Mr. Durst stated that he called
from his own house.
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On the second interview,
he told Mr. Wright
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that he'd made
the call to his wife
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from a payphone in a restaurant.
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He later on stated that he had
called Kathie from a payphone
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between the house
and the train station.
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He was kind of
all over the board.
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Once Wright was
telling these people
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that there's deception on the
part of their son and brother,
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I would think that behind the
scenes there was a great deal of
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alarm concerning this matter.
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Police are satisfied
that Mrs. Durst
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made it to the couple's
apartment on Riverside Drive.
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During our investigation,
the doorman told us he saw her
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arrive home that Sunday evening
and go to her apartment.
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But in an interview
conducted by Mr. Wright,
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the doorman told him that
actually he didn't see her.
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He would have been
the guy to bring her up.
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And if he didn't see her,
she wasn't there.
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The Durst Family...
His father or brothers...
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Never offered to help us,
or never said,
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"Look, we have a private
investigator involved in it.
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Anything he finds
he'll share with you."
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They just further backed away.
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There came a time
when I was mutually terminated.
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We decided it was best for them
to go another way.
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But that's about, you know...
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At this juncture, I'd be uncomfortable
discussing anything else about it.
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From reading your report,
I can understand why that is.
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Okay.
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Were there five meetings with Ed Wright?
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Were there ten meetings with Ed Wright?
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Me? I must have had
10 or a dozen meetings,
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including the ones in our office
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where Douglas was usually there,
245
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and the ones in,
in Nick's office.
246
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So, Doug was probably
in on how many of them?
247
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5, 6.
Like that.
248
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I think at this point
if they admit that they knew
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anything back in 1982,
makes them complicit.
250
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And they don't want
that shame to come on them.
251
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"Oh, I didn't say anything then
because I was afraid of..."
252
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Whatever, whatever the deal is,
253
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they just can't
come forward now.
254
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And I don't,
I don't expect them to.
255
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It's upsetting to think that
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because you're living
up there on Mt. Olympus,
257
00:16:13,775 --> 00:16:18,611
it's not necessary
to talk to regular people
258
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about extraordinary problems.
259
00:16:24,419 --> 00:16:27,287
You know, a disappearance of a woman,
it's a tragedy.
260
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It's a trauma.
261
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It's like a wound, you know.
262
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Whatever I'm going through as
a member of the Durst family,
263
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I can't imagine what it's like
264
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to be a member of
the McCormack family,
265
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my Aunt Kathie's family.
266
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She disappeared
two weeks after I was born.
267
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So, I wasn't really
aware of the first,
268
00:16:49,111 --> 00:16:53,480
first years of this tragedy,
when it was most raw.
269
00:16:53,482 --> 00:16:55,865
You know, I only came kind of
to an understanding of it
270
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when I was an early teenager...
12, 13 years old...
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When people started remarking
on our physical resemblance.
272
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I mean, I haven't seen this.
Oh, my God.
273
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This could be me.
274
00:17:12,667 --> 00:17:13,917
Yeah, that's incredible.
275
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It's chilling for me.
276
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You know that fact that,
you know, my mom,
277
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who was a contemporary
of Seymour Durst,
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never even got a
courtesy call to say,
279
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"How are you doing?
How can we help?"
280
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has always stuck in my craw.
281
00:17:33,188 --> 00:17:37,190
And I never got a call from
Wendy or Tommy or, or Doug.
282
00:17:37,192 --> 00:17:39,275
I didn't expect a call from Bob.
283
00:17:39,327 --> 00:17:42,162
It's been like, you know,
just an ignored family.
284
00:17:45,867 --> 00:17:49,118
I wish I could say that it,
it brought everybody closer,
285
00:17:49,171 --> 00:17:53,206
but I don't think
that would be the truth.
286
00:17:53,258 --> 00:17:57,177
You know, I think...
It was this thing
287
00:17:57,212 --> 00:17:59,179
because there was no closure.
288
00:17:59,214 --> 00:18:02,215
It's not, it's not like
losing someone and knowing why,
289
00:18:02,267 --> 00:18:05,969
where you can all rally around
a common understanding
290
00:18:06,021 --> 00:18:10,690
or a common emotion
or range of emotions.
291
00:18:10,725 --> 00:18:14,611
This was so,
everything was so shrouded in mystery.
292
00:18:14,646 --> 00:18:20,066
There was so much anger,
and no opportunity to truly grieve.
293
00:18:20,068 --> 00:18:23,736
And I think that maybe
missing that grieving process
294
00:18:23,738 --> 00:18:24,954
was hard on the family.
295
00:18:24,990 --> 00:18:28,575
I mean, I think,
I think that's why it's still,
296
00:18:28,627 --> 00:18:29,787
we're still talking about it.
297
00:18:31,278 --> 00:18:32,863
How long ago did Kathie disappear?
298
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30 years
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as of January 31 of this year.
300
00:18:38,660 --> 00:18:39,870
And what was that like?
301
00:18:39,953 --> 00:18:41,772
Did you do anything on January 31st?
302
00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,723
Yeah,
I went to mass that morning.
303
00:18:43,758 --> 00:18:45,925
I remembered Kathie.
304
00:18:45,977 --> 00:18:47,760
And actually,
I spoke in front of
305
00:18:47,812 --> 00:18:49,596
the congregation that was there.
306
00:18:49,648 --> 00:18:51,681
And it had prayers
said for Kathie,
307
00:18:51,733 --> 00:18:53,983
and we also had
prayers said for Bob.
308
00:18:55,770 --> 00:18:58,154
For Kathie, for her peace.
309
00:18:58,189 --> 00:18:59,606
And for Bob, for his conscience.
310
00:19:05,664 --> 00:19:08,531
Maybe something will
come of this, huh?
311
00:19:08,583 --> 00:19:11,451
Wouldn't it be nice?
You never know.
312
00:19:11,503 --> 00:19:15,955
You read those,
"Years later, they found out this
313
00:19:16,007 --> 00:19:17,790
and they found out that."
314
00:19:17,842 --> 00:19:19,125
And there might be
somebody out there
315
00:19:19,177 --> 00:19:22,595
that knows something
and is keeping quiet. So...
316
00:19:27,302 --> 00:19:28,635
I'd started to write this essay
317
00:19:28,687 --> 00:19:32,472
about my Aunt Kathie's
disappearance as a way to heal.
318
00:19:32,474 --> 00:19:34,023
I forget if I had
the idea initially
319
00:19:34,059 --> 00:19:35,692
or somebody in my family
may have suggested
320
00:19:35,727 --> 00:19:39,145
I could talk to Douglas
to get his take.
321
00:19:39,197 --> 00:19:42,031
The way it ended up,
it was a deal.
322
00:19:42,067 --> 00:19:43,616
That's what it was.
323
00:19:43,652 --> 00:19:45,985
I get to call him on the phone
for 15 minutes.
324
00:19:45,987 --> 00:19:47,654
"No, he wants to email."
325
00:19:47,706 --> 00:19:49,155
"No, it's 10 questions."
326
00:19:49,207 --> 00:19:50,657
"No, it's 5."
"No, it's 3."
327
00:19:50,709 --> 00:19:51,824
And I think that's
what it wound up at.
328
00:19:51,826 --> 00:19:53,626
There was 3 questions.
329
00:19:53,986 --> 00:19:56,363
So, tell me each question and the response.
330
00:19:56,414 --> 00:19:59,499
I think Question Number One was
331
00:19:59,551 --> 00:20:04,887
"Do, uh... What memories do
you have of Aunt Kathie?"
332
00:20:04,923 --> 00:20:09,976
And his answer was
"My memories of Kathie are my memories."
333
00:20:10,011 --> 00:20:11,761
Question Number Two
I believe was
334
00:20:11,813 --> 00:20:14,013
"Have you seen the movie
All Good Things,
335
00:20:14,015 --> 00:20:15,898
"or are you aware
that those filmmakers
336
00:20:15,934 --> 00:20:17,900
are making a documentary?"
337
00:20:17,936 --> 00:20:21,187
And his answer was "No."
338
00:20:21,189 --> 00:20:23,323
And then the third question was
339
00:20:23,358 --> 00:20:25,908
"Do you think that
the Westchester D.A.
340
00:20:25,944 --> 00:20:29,996
will reopen the case
on my Aunt Kathie?"
341
00:20:30,031 --> 00:20:34,584
And his answer was
"I don't have any knowledge
342
00:20:34,619 --> 00:20:36,869
of how the Westchester
D.A. operates"
343
00:20:36,921 --> 00:20:39,422
or something like that,
and that was it.
344
00:20:42,159 --> 00:20:43,719
Good afternoon, Douglas Durst's office.
345
00:20:43,785 --> 00:20:45,746
Hi, it's Andrew Jarecki calling for Douglas.
346
00:20:46,330 --> 00:20:47,414
He is on the other line.
347
00:20:47,497 --> 00:20:48,749
May I have him give you a call back?
348
00:20:48,832 --> 00:20:50,832
Sure.
- And may I let him know what it's regarding?
349
00:20:50,876 --> 00:20:52,794
Yeah, he knows we're doing a film about...
350
00:20:52,878 --> 00:20:53,921
Robert Durst.
351
00:20:54,504 --> 00:20:55,505
Oh, I see.
352
00:20:55,589 --> 00:20:56,629
Okay, I will let him know.
353
00:20:56,673 --> 00:20:57,841
- Thank you.
- Thank you. Bye.
354
00:21:01,803 --> 00:21:03,722
- Hello.
- Hello, is this Andrew?
355
00:21:03,805 --> 00:21:05,849
- It is.
- Hi, it's Jordan Barowitz.
356
00:21:05,933 --> 00:21:08,226
You called Douglas Durst.
I'm returning his call.
357
00:21:08,352 --> 00:21:09,770
I did call Douglas Durst.
358
00:21:09,853 --> 00:21:10,938
How can I help you?
359
00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:12,731
You called him.
360
00:21:13,690 --> 00:21:14,691
Precisely.
361
00:21:15,192 --> 00:21:16,193
Yes.
362
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,656
I'm returning that call on his behalf.
363
00:21:20,739 --> 00:21:22,240
Can I help you with something?
364
00:21:22,324 --> 00:21:24,724
Yeah, I wanted to talk to him
about the film that I'm making.
365
00:21:25,202 --> 00:21:27,829
Okay, Douglas has no interest
in speaking with you.
366
00:21:27,913 --> 00:21:30,540
Is there something
you want me to relay to him?
367
00:21:31,208 --> 00:21:32,501
Douglas is a character in the film.
368
00:21:32,584 --> 00:21:33,752
He's certainly an element of it,
369
00:21:33,835 --> 00:21:36,463
and I want to make sure that he
has the chance to talk to me about it
370
00:21:36,546 --> 00:21:37,798
before we complete the film.
371
00:21:39,549 --> 00:21:40,759
Okay. All right.
372
00:21:41,218 --> 00:21:42,219
Thank you.
373
00:21:47,942 --> 00:21:50,076
We're going to see
Bob Durst's brother Douglas.
374
00:21:51,279 --> 00:21:54,447
See what we can learn
face-to-face
375
00:21:54,449 --> 00:21:57,333
by getting to know
the man a bit.
376
00:21:57,368 --> 00:21:58,918
Have you ever met him before?
377
00:21:58,953 --> 00:22:00,119
I've never met him before.
378
00:22:00,171 --> 00:22:03,790
I've seen him around
a few social occasions.
379
00:22:03,792 --> 00:22:07,126
But we're going to go to
a dinner in his honor.
380
00:22:20,007 --> 00:22:23,051
Douglas Durst is the patriarch of the Dursts.
381
00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:27,431
The Dursts are the symbol,
in New York and nationally,
382
00:22:27,514 --> 00:22:31,059
of family values,
accomplishment and success.
383
00:22:32,269 --> 00:22:36,064
So, on behalf of the board of Children's
Rights, please welcome Douglas Durst,
384
00:22:36,481 --> 00:22:40,527
the 2011 recipient of the
Children's Rights Champion Award.
385
00:22:46,450 --> 00:22:49,119
Thank you, Richard, I must say that...
386
00:22:49,786 --> 00:22:53,165
the word "patriarch" is hard for me to digest.
387
00:22:54,750 --> 00:22:58,128
I'm still a hippie at Berkeley, so...
388
00:22:59,230 --> 00:23:00,346
Can I interrupt you?
389
00:23:00,348 --> 00:23:01,931
- First I want to congratulate you.
- Thank you.
390
00:23:01,983 --> 00:23:03,983
Then I want to tell you
I'm Andrew Jarecki.
391
00:23:04,018 --> 00:23:05,151
Oh, you are.
392
00:23:05,186 --> 00:23:07,320
I mean you no harm.
I'm, I'm interested in,
393
00:23:07,355 --> 00:23:08,689
you know, at some point,
us getting a chance to talk.
394
00:23:08,697 --> 00:23:10,491
Well, you're not successful.
395
00:23:10,541 --> 00:23:12,191
Well, I've tried.
It's not my fault.
396
00:23:12,193 --> 00:23:13,192
You know, I'd be happy to come
397
00:23:13,194 --> 00:23:14,360
sit down and talk at some point
398
00:23:14,362 --> 00:23:17,363
if you're, you know,
so motivated.
399
00:23:17,365 --> 00:23:18,831
Off the record, or, you know,
400
00:23:18,867 --> 00:23:20,387
just sort of say
what we're working on.
401
00:23:22,069 --> 00:23:22,970
All right.
402
00:23:22,337 --> 00:23:23,452
That's my idea.
403
00:23:24,613 --> 00:23:26,673
Perhaps we could do that at some point.
404
00:23:26,674 --> 00:23:27,707
Well, anyway, congratulations.
405
00:23:27,759 --> 00:23:28,791
I wanted
to just say "hi."
406
00:23:52,734 --> 00:23:55,067
You know,
it's as if Doug has become
407
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,404
the eldest son of
the Durst family.
408
00:23:58,456 --> 00:24:01,707
It must be very strange
for Bob to not exist.
409
00:24:01,743 --> 00:24:04,377
You know?
For Bob to be this guy who...
410
00:24:04,412 --> 00:24:07,246
I mean, it gives you a little
of an idea of why, you know,
411
00:24:07,248 --> 00:24:08,488
why he wants to be in our film.
412
00:24:14,005 --> 00:24:15,588
I worked here my whole time.
413
00:24:16,289 --> 00:24:17,541
This was the building where you worked?
414
00:24:17,592 --> 00:24:20,977
The whole time...
'74 to '92-ish.
415
00:24:21,012 --> 00:24:23,429
Wow.
416
00:24:23,481 --> 00:24:25,681
We had the 32nd floor.
417
00:24:29,845 --> 00:24:31,888
You don't seem to have
a happy memory of that.
418
00:24:31,940 --> 00:24:34,273
Well, you know,
a long time ago now.
419
00:24:34,325 --> 00:24:37,693
But that's where
I spent those 18 years.
420
00:24:37,745 --> 00:24:38,995
Yeah, you know, you can't set up
421
00:24:39,030 --> 00:24:41,330
any tripods on the property
without, uh...
422
00:24:41,366 --> 00:24:43,199
- OK, we have no tripods.
- OK, OK.
423
00:24:43,251 --> 00:24:44,200
Do you, can you tell me
424
00:24:44,252 --> 00:24:45,701
where you work,
do you work here?
425
00:24:45,753 --> 00:24:49,372
Yeah, I work for,
I'm security for the building. I patrol...
426
00:24:49,424 --> 00:24:50,790
- Who owns the building?
- Huh?
427
00:24:50,842 --> 00:24:51,842
Who owns the building?
428
00:24:51,876 --> 00:24:53,009
The building is Royal Realty.
429
00:24:53,044 --> 00:24:54,427
A company called Royal Realty.
430
00:24:54,462 --> 00:24:55,711
They own the building.
431
00:24:55,763 --> 00:24:57,513
But that, the "D" on your thing,
is that...?
432
00:24:57,548 --> 00:24:59,682
Yes, yes. Why, why,
who are you with?
433
00:24:59,717 --> 00:25:01,634
We're actually making
a film about Robert Durst.
434
00:25:01,636 --> 00:25:04,136
Oh, um, I'm, I'm not authorized
435
00:25:04,138 --> 00:25:06,138
to give you any
information at this time.
436
00:25:06,190 --> 00:25:07,940
You know? OK.
437
00:25:07,976 --> 00:25:08,941
Thank you very much, sir.
438
00:25:08,977 --> 00:25:10,393
OK, Doug.
All right.
439
00:25:10,445 --> 00:25:12,311
But it's not a secret
that that's a "D" for Durst...
440
00:25:12,313 --> 00:25:13,479
OK, I understand that.
441
00:25:13,481 --> 00:25:15,731
But I'm not authorized
to give any information.
442
00:25:15,783 --> 00:25:17,733
I don't want to put you
in an uncomfortable position.
443
00:25:17,785 --> 00:25:18,901
All right.
Thank you.
444
00:25:24,826 --> 00:25:27,793
Well, I'm here with
Andrew and 4 other people
445
00:25:27,829 --> 00:25:29,879
being filmed in Times Square.
446
00:25:29,914 --> 00:25:32,131
And as soon as we got here,
447
00:25:32,166 --> 00:25:35,968
immediately Douglas'
security people were there.
448
00:25:36,004 --> 00:25:37,336
Make sure you get
all the profile.
449
00:25:39,140 --> 00:25:40,640
What are you
following us around for?
450
00:25:43,144 --> 00:25:44,894
When they saw all the cameras,
451
00:25:44,929 --> 00:25:48,347
they all were on the telephone
calling whomever.
452
00:25:48,399 --> 00:25:50,766
There must have been 6 of them.
453
00:25:50,818 --> 00:25:54,020
And they, uh, watched us,
and Andrew filmed them.
454
00:25:54,072 --> 00:25:56,739
And that's how I spent
the last hour and a half.
455
00:26:02,196 --> 00:26:04,280
How do you feel about
your brother Douglas Durst?
456
00:26:04,332 --> 00:26:05,915
I don't get along with him.
457
00:26:05,950 --> 00:26:07,083
Why not?
458
00:26:07,118 --> 00:26:08,701
I'd have to go back
459
00:26:08,753 --> 00:26:10,336
to when we were 5.
460
00:26:13,374 --> 00:26:15,041
Let's go back to
when you were 5.
461
00:26:15,043 --> 00:26:16,125
Why don't you
get along with him?
462
00:26:16,177 --> 00:26:18,044
We, we,
463
00:26:18,046 --> 00:26:20,930
I, I think I remember
he stole my toys.
464
00:26:27,555 --> 00:26:28,888
We're talking
about a sibling rivalry
465
00:26:28,940 --> 00:26:32,224
that's quite advanced in terms
of who's going to run
466
00:26:32,226 --> 00:26:33,893
a billion-dollar business.
467
00:26:33,895 --> 00:26:36,062
And the eldest doesn't win that,
468
00:26:36,114 --> 00:26:41,400
and it goes to, you know,
the, the second eldest.
469
00:26:41,402 --> 00:26:42,402
And, um...
470
00:26:48,993 --> 00:26:52,712
You could argue that
Bob's failure to be chosen
471
00:26:52,747 --> 00:26:54,547
to take on the family business
472
00:26:54,582 --> 00:26:58,417
was a betrayal of
biblical proportions.
473
00:27:03,808 --> 00:27:04,590
Did I tell you that I went
474
00:27:04,642 --> 00:27:06,926
to his Katonah house?
475
00:27:06,928 --> 00:27:08,511
Uh, I think I read that you did,
476
00:27:08,563 --> 00:27:11,680
but I didn't,
I don't remember if you told me.
477
00:27:11,733 --> 00:27:15,067
I was driving
around these places I grew up,
478
00:27:15,103 --> 00:27:16,435
my family places, and...
479
00:27:16,437 --> 00:27:17,520
Oh, it was
in the newspaper then.
480
00:27:17,572 --> 00:27:20,022
- Yeah, yeah.
- But, but, but
481
00:27:20,074 --> 00:27:22,191
I really went... My plan...
482
00:27:22,243 --> 00:27:23,659
Don't say it. OK?
483
00:27:23,694 --> 00:27:24,994
I'm definitely
not going to say it.
484
00:27:25,029 --> 00:27:26,612
OK. But you told me
what your plans were,
485
00:27:26,614 --> 00:27:29,865
and I told you that I knew,
I had a feeling, I suspected.
486
00:27:29,917 --> 00:27:33,786
Remember?
If I suspected, he knew it, too.
487
00:27:35,706 --> 00:27:37,339
While Bob was on the run,
488
00:27:37,375 --> 00:27:42,461
he pulled into the driveway of
his brother's home in Katonah.
489
00:27:42,513 --> 00:27:44,463
He had two guns in his car.
490
00:27:45,767 --> 00:27:49,435
I think that convinced Douglas
more than ever
491
00:27:49,470 --> 00:27:50,970
that his brother
was out to kill him.
492
00:27:54,776 --> 00:27:56,642
The press reported that
you had hired a bodyguard
493
00:27:56,694 --> 00:27:58,194
to protect yourself
against Robert Durst.
494
00:27:58,229 --> 00:27:59,945
Is that true?
495
00:27:59,981 --> 00:28:01,147
That is true, yes.
496
00:28:13,211 --> 00:28:17,329
Uh... Ridiculous.
497
00:28:19,550 --> 00:28:21,834
I think it's
absolutely ridiculous.
498
00:28:23,671 --> 00:28:26,505
Right here.
I want you to photograph me
499
00:28:26,507 --> 00:28:27,840
in front of Douglas's house.
500
00:28:27,842 --> 00:28:29,809
Now that I know that
it's Douglas's house.
501
00:28:34,015 --> 00:28:35,181
Uh.
502
00:28:38,152 --> 00:28:39,318
This is it.
503
00:28:40,571 --> 00:28:41,687
How strange is this?
504
00:28:43,024 --> 00:28:45,074
I mean, I think he's not
going to be satisfied unless
505
00:28:45,109 --> 00:28:47,493
somebody comes
and tells him to move.
506
00:29:04,378 --> 00:29:05,794
I'm finished, fellas.
507
00:29:13,387 --> 00:29:15,554
When did you first
meet Robert Durst?
508
00:29:15,556 --> 00:29:20,309
Heh.
I think I met him in 1988.
509
00:29:22,230 --> 00:29:24,563
At the time, was he married?
510
00:29:24,565 --> 00:29:27,783
Heh. That's a very tricky question,
as you know.
511
00:29:27,818 --> 00:29:29,235
But let's say he was.
512
00:29:37,161 --> 00:29:41,997
In the fall of 2000,
had you heard reports that
513
00:29:42,049 --> 00:29:45,134
the Westchester District
Attorney was investigating
514
00:29:45,169 --> 00:29:48,754
the disappearance of
Mr. Durst's first wife?
515
00:29:48,806 --> 00:29:49,922
Yes.
516
00:29:52,810 --> 00:29:54,894
We know that Bobby
found out that Kathie's case
517
00:29:54,929 --> 00:29:58,180
was going to be reopened
October 31 of 2000.
518
00:29:59,433 --> 00:30:02,484
From there,
he went into a defensive mode.
519
00:30:04,105 --> 00:30:08,157
The next day, he made a purchase for a,
a jewelry purchase,
520
00:30:08,192 --> 00:30:10,409
which I believe is
the engagement ring for Debrah.
521
00:30:17,752 --> 00:30:18,951
So, now, you know,
522
00:30:18,953 --> 00:30:20,369
he has the husband-wife
privilege.
523
00:30:20,421 --> 00:30:22,955
And that's exactly
when he signed over
524
00:30:22,957 --> 00:30:24,055
all the power of attorney.
525
00:30:28,179 --> 00:30:30,346
A lot of people believe
526
00:30:30,381 --> 00:30:32,798
that Debbie knows Bob's secrets,
527
00:30:32,850 --> 00:30:34,800
whatever they may be.
528
00:30:36,220 --> 00:30:38,304
Did you discuss the
reopening of the investigation
529
00:30:38,356 --> 00:30:40,389
with Mr. Durst,
before you were married?
530
00:30:42,476 --> 00:30:44,476
Yes.
531
00:30:44,478 --> 00:30:47,146
What did he tell you about that?
532
00:30:47,148 --> 00:30:49,565
Um,
I'm going to object to anything that goes
533
00:30:49,617 --> 00:30:51,784
to the spousal privilege
in terms of communications.
534
00:30:51,819 --> 00:30:55,120
You want to ask her
about facts that she knows,
535
00:30:55,156 --> 00:30:56,121
the witness can answer that.
But...
536
00:30:56,157 --> 00:31:00,125
My question specifically framed
537
00:31:00,161 --> 00:31:02,077
going to before
they were married.
538
00:31:02,129 --> 00:31:03,212
OK.
539
00:31:16,227 --> 00:31:21,981
I guess that what he told me
was that he was scared.
540
00:31:22,016 --> 00:31:23,182
Scared of what?
541
00:31:24,986 --> 00:31:27,653
Of Jeanine Pirro opening up
the investigation.
542
00:31:28,689 --> 00:31:29,855
Concerned.
543
00:31:31,275 --> 00:31:34,493
I spoke with
his wife Debrah Charatan.
544
00:31:34,528 --> 00:31:36,996
She called her lawyer
almost immediately.
545
00:31:37,031 --> 00:31:41,450
Uh, she was somewhat,
um, polite.
546
00:31:41,502 --> 00:31:44,086
But I think she wanted
to learn more from us
547
00:31:44,121 --> 00:31:46,922
than she was willing to tell us.
548
00:31:46,957 --> 00:31:49,208
Lovely woman.
Elegant. Smart.
549
00:31:51,045 --> 00:31:54,296
Couldn't remember where Robert
Durst was around Christmastime,
550
00:31:54,348 --> 00:31:56,382
even though they were newlyweds.
551
00:31:58,719 --> 00:32:01,103
Did you learn
around Christmas of 2000
552
00:32:01,138 --> 00:32:04,106
that Susan Berman
had been killed?
553
00:32:04,141 --> 00:32:06,392
- Yes.
- How did you learn that?
554
00:32:06,444 --> 00:32:09,278
I was driving in a taxicab,
555
00:32:09,313 --> 00:32:12,364
on my way home to the city,
to the apartment,
556
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:13,565
and I heard it on the radio.
557
00:32:39,510 --> 00:32:42,928
At that time,
was Mr. Durst
558
00:32:42,930 --> 00:32:44,480
in residence at your house?
559
00:32:50,988 --> 00:32:52,237
I don't think so.
560
00:32:54,775 --> 00:33:00,028
I've never been able
to put Bobby in Los Angeles
561
00:33:00,081 --> 00:33:01,580
at the time of the murder.
562
00:33:01,615 --> 00:33:02,948
I could put him in California.
563
00:33:05,202 --> 00:33:06,919
We spoke to people
out in California,
564
00:33:06,954 --> 00:33:09,288
and at least two people
told us that Susan had said
565
00:33:09,290 --> 00:33:12,291
Bob was going to come and visit
some time around the holidays,
566
00:33:12,343 --> 00:33:15,094
and she was,
she was looking forward to it.
567
00:33:15,129 --> 00:33:19,047
In fact, we found out that Bob
went out to Northern California
568
00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:21,467
sometime close
to Susan's murder.
569
00:33:27,725 --> 00:33:30,225
Now,
what was in Trinidad, California?
570
00:33:30,277 --> 00:33:33,061
Oh, it was very rural,
very pretty.
571
00:33:33,114 --> 00:33:35,147
I had lived there off and on.
572
00:33:38,369 --> 00:33:40,409
The police, I think,
made a big deal out of the idea
573
00:33:40,454 --> 00:33:44,239
that you had gone to
California around the time
574
00:33:44,291 --> 00:33:46,742
that Susan Berman was murdered.
575
00:33:46,794 --> 00:33:50,245
I, I got there a long time
before December 23.
576
00:33:50,297 --> 00:33:51,914
A long time before Christmas.
577
00:33:54,668 --> 00:34:01,140
I picked Bob up
on December 19 in 2000
578
00:34:01,175 --> 00:34:05,427
And took him down to Harper Ford,
pick up his car keys,
579
00:34:05,479 --> 00:34:09,598
and took him back
to the airport,
580
00:34:09,650 --> 00:34:11,266
where his car was, apparently.
581
00:34:13,154 --> 00:34:16,655
The parking facility
at the Arcata Airport,
582
00:34:16,690 --> 00:34:18,941
they keep logs, a daily log
583
00:34:18,993 --> 00:34:22,027
of the vehicles that
are kept in the lot.
584
00:34:23,531 --> 00:34:25,464
We did determine that Bobby had
585
00:34:25,499 --> 00:34:29,268
got his vehicle out of
the long-term parking lot
586
00:34:29,303 --> 00:34:30,953
on the 19th of December.
587
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,550
Bob had at least
one calling card
588
00:34:44,552 --> 00:34:46,552
that we found in his records.
589
00:34:46,604 --> 00:34:49,388
These two calls were
made the next day, on the 20th,
590
00:34:49,390 --> 00:34:53,725
from a payphone in
the town of Garberville,
591
00:34:53,727 --> 00:34:57,112
which is about 80,
90 miles south of Trinidad.
592
00:34:58,983 --> 00:35:01,116
It makes sense that
he's moving south.
593
00:35:01,151 --> 00:35:02,234
He's heading down.
594
00:35:06,073 --> 00:35:09,625
This is a man who
would check his voice messages
595
00:35:09,660 --> 00:35:11,076
several times a day.
596
00:35:11,128 --> 00:35:12,628
And then we found that,
597
00:35:12,663 --> 00:35:17,916
during the 3, 4 days prior to
and after Susan's murder,
598
00:35:17,918 --> 00:35:21,303
there's no activity
at all on his phone.
599
00:35:21,338 --> 00:35:22,421
The phone company says, like,
600
00:35:22,423 --> 00:35:24,590
the phone is turned off
during that time.
601
00:35:40,357 --> 00:35:42,941
He's kind of off the map
for 3 days,
602
00:35:42,993 --> 00:35:45,494
until he shows up at
the counter in San Francisco
603
00:35:45,529 --> 00:35:47,829
to purchase a ticket.
604
00:35:47,865 --> 00:35:50,949
He was on Flight 18
that left San Francisco
605
00:35:50,951 --> 00:35:52,751
at 10:00 in the evening.
606
00:35:55,623 --> 00:35:58,123
Her body was found
the following afternoon.
607
00:36:02,963 --> 00:36:06,048
According to the coroner's
report and the rigor mortis,
608
00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:09,518
she'd probably been
laying there close to 24 hours.
609
00:36:10,771 --> 00:36:11,970
That's ample time to drive
610
00:36:12,022 --> 00:36:14,640
L.A. to San Francisco,
catch a flight.
611
00:36:27,655 --> 00:36:31,740
The timing on all of this gets very,
very tight,
612
00:36:31,792 --> 00:36:34,326
because it's a long way from
613
00:36:34,378 --> 00:36:36,078
Trinidad to Los Angeles.
614
00:36:36,130 --> 00:36:38,497
I would have had to go from
Trinidad to Los Angeles
615
00:36:38,549 --> 00:36:42,634
I don't know when...
19th, 20th, 21st or whatever...
616
00:36:42,670 --> 00:36:46,505
And then gone back to
Los Angeles to Trinidad,
617
00:36:46,557 --> 00:36:49,675
and then gone to San Francisco
and flown to New York.
618
00:36:49,677 --> 00:36:51,009
And they just conclude...
619
00:36:51,061 --> 00:36:53,562
That's not much time
to do all that.
620
00:36:55,933 --> 00:36:57,599
And the L.A. Police
have been
621
00:36:57,651 --> 00:36:59,818
investigating for a while now,
622
00:36:59,853 --> 00:37:02,938
and they're unable to
put him in Los Angeles.
623
00:37:04,491 --> 00:37:06,992
But they were able to
put you in California.
624
00:37:07,027 --> 00:37:08,694
California is a big state.
625
00:37:18,956 --> 00:37:22,374
The night that I found
out, I went to Susan's house.
626
00:37:24,044 --> 00:37:25,877
There was just a pool
of blood there,
627
00:37:25,929 --> 00:37:28,130
and Susan's hair in the blood.
628
00:37:28,182 --> 00:37:34,353
And, you know, it was, um,
very disturbing, of course.
629
00:37:34,388 --> 00:37:36,772
And then the little,
the little paw prints
630
00:37:36,807 --> 00:37:40,225
of the little doggies, you know,
through, through that.
631
00:37:40,277 --> 00:37:44,646
And it was, you know,
it was horrible.
632
00:37:44,698 --> 00:37:48,900
It was, it was really
a terrible thing to see,
633
00:37:48,952 --> 00:37:55,791
and a terrible thing to see
one of your friends like that.
634
00:37:55,826 --> 00:37:57,709
A terrible thing to see.
635
00:38:02,299 --> 00:38:04,082
There is no justice for Susan,
636
00:38:04,134 --> 00:38:07,719
because somebody took her life away,
you know,
637
00:38:07,755 --> 00:38:10,222
and she was, she really was
638
00:38:10,257 --> 00:38:16,361
living valiantly to put
her life together.
639
00:38:16,397 --> 00:38:20,732
There is justice that remains
for everyone who's left behind.
640
00:38:20,768 --> 00:38:23,402
It's, it's for us...
Not for Susan.
641
00:38:26,722 --> 00:38:29,776
If you could find closure
and be able to put all this in the past,
642
00:38:29,777 --> 00:38:30,776
Mm-hmm.
643
00:38:30,518 --> 00:38:31,881
What would that look like for you?
644
00:38:31,882 --> 00:38:34,446
The truth.
The truth will set you free.
645
00:38:34,448 --> 00:38:37,833
The truth would help it
be all over.
646
00:38:41,538 --> 00:38:45,590
Once they had completed
the crime scene investigation,
647
00:38:45,626 --> 00:38:48,293
her body had been removed
by the coroner's office.
648
00:38:49,797 --> 00:38:54,599
Susan's possessions
were released to Sareb Kaufman,
649
00:38:54,635 --> 00:38:58,804
who was the only family that she
had there that they could find.
650
00:39:02,109 --> 00:39:04,142
The best I can ever hope for
651
00:39:04,144 --> 00:39:06,978
in finding out what happened is that it,
for some reason,
652
00:39:06,980 --> 00:39:09,197
does turn out to be
a random act of violence.
653
00:39:09,233 --> 00:39:11,700
That somebody just
thought they were
654
00:39:11,735 --> 00:39:13,568
robbing a house that had
nothing and killed her.
655
00:39:13,620 --> 00:39:15,203
That's the best I can hope for.
656
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,823
Outside of that, it's a friend.
657
00:39:17,825 --> 00:39:18,990
It's somebody she knew.
658
00:39:19,042 --> 00:39:20,459
It's somebody I've spoken to.
659
00:39:45,486 --> 00:39:47,402
First saved voice message.
660
00:39:48,554 --> 00:39:50,056
Hey, Marc, it's Sareb.
661
00:39:50,139 --> 00:39:54,226
Started going through the boxes of
Susan's stuff and I did have another box.
662
00:39:54,852 --> 00:39:59,732
So, wanted to actually get a reality
check from you, when you have a second.
663
00:40:00,232 --> 00:40:01,442
All right, bye.
664
00:40:06,957 --> 00:40:08,707
First saved voice message.
665
00:40:09,325 --> 00:40:10,409
Hey, Andrew, it's Marc.
666
00:40:10,493 --> 00:40:13,204
Listen, I'm going to make this quick because
I've got Sareb in the restaurant over here.
667
00:40:13,829 --> 00:40:16,373
We went to his house. He was very uptight...
668
00:40:22,389 --> 00:40:23,638
Well, do you, do you want to,
669
00:40:23,690 --> 00:40:25,023
should we come up
and see what you got?
670
00:40:25,058 --> 00:40:26,141
Or do you want to
bring it with you?
671
00:40:26,193 --> 00:40:28,026
What do you...?
Yeah.
672
00:40:28,061 --> 00:40:29,778
All right.
All right. Bye.
673
00:40:29,813 --> 00:40:31,897
I didn't want you to think,
you know, I felt bad.
674
00:40:31,949 --> 00:40:33,365
- I was like...
What's all this?
675
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,234
Well, these are audiotapes that
were in Susan's possession.
676
00:40:36,236 --> 00:40:37,619
So, some of them...
677
00:40:37,654 --> 00:40:39,654
Like,
probably from interviews she did.
678
00:40:39,706 --> 00:40:42,624
Right.
And then the memorial is in there.
679
00:40:42,659 --> 00:40:43,909
So, let me see the letter.
680
00:40:45,495 --> 00:40:47,295
And, I mean,
of course I told you this, but...
681
00:40:59,092 --> 00:41:01,426
He showed
me a letter from Bob to Susan
682
00:41:01,478 --> 00:41:04,563
that was from March
before she was murdered.
683
00:41:04,598 --> 00:41:05,730
The address written on the front
684
00:41:05,766 --> 00:41:08,066
is exactly like
the "cadaver" note,
685
00:41:08,101 --> 00:41:10,018
down to the misspelling
of "Beverly."
686
00:41:22,282 --> 00:41:23,615
So,
I'm not trying to make you feel...
687
00:41:23,667 --> 00:41:27,919
No. Like I said,
and this is kind of why...
688
00:41:27,955 --> 00:41:30,872
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I got you. Got you.
689
00:41:30,924 --> 00:41:33,959
You know, I'm, I,
it was clear enough
690
00:41:34,011 --> 00:41:35,677
that I might be
dancing with the devil.
691
00:42:05,524 --> 00:42:07,067
Do you think you have an answer now?
692
00:42:14,251 --> 00:42:15,333
I do.
693
00:42:22,092 --> 00:42:24,009
Is it possible for us to get
694
00:42:24,011 --> 00:42:28,763
the inventory of what was
taken out of Susan's house
695
00:42:28,815 --> 00:42:30,015
after she was murdered?
696
00:42:30,017 --> 00:42:32,267
Because, you know,
you can ask Coulter
697
00:42:32,319 --> 00:42:34,686
whether he saw
any other letters.
698
00:42:34,970 --> 00:42:38,557
You know, is there any chance that
this letter is already in the cops' file?
699
00:42:38,558 --> 00:42:41,693
No, I tried.
I dug really deep today.
700
00:42:41,695 --> 00:42:42,694
- No chance.
- No chance.
701
00:42:42,696 --> 00:42:45,196
No chance.
No chance.
702
00:42:45,248 --> 00:42:46,948
Are you opening up
your safe deposit?
703
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,867
Yeah. So,
I have to fill out...
704
00:42:56,710 --> 00:43:01,129
I would like to take
the next month and, you know,
705
00:43:01,181 --> 00:43:03,214
nothing's bringing Susan back
706
00:43:03,216 --> 00:43:05,967
and nobody's going to know
that we have this document.
707
00:43:07,054 --> 00:43:12,390
So, what about,
we interview Bob?
708
00:43:12,442 --> 00:43:13,892
We bring it up.
709
00:43:13,944 --> 00:43:15,477
We have it on film.
710
00:43:17,397 --> 00:43:18,697
And now we have something
711
00:43:18,732 --> 00:43:20,281
that the LAPD's
going to really want.
712
00:43:20,317 --> 00:43:22,567
Because now we have,
without all the bullshit,
713
00:43:22,569 --> 00:43:24,903
without having to go through
800 different levels
714
00:43:24,905 --> 00:43:26,488
of discovery and all that stuff.
715
00:43:26,540 --> 00:43:28,740
We've got Bob reacting clean
716
00:43:28,742 --> 00:43:30,909
to this hugely important
piece of evidence.
717
00:43:32,829 --> 00:43:37,248
Bob second interview.